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What are you comparing against? Only the water drank by cattle? That’s laughably ignorant.

It doesn’t matter if you go by weight, volume, or calories - eating plants is a ton less water-intensive than feeding it to cattle raised for slaughter.

It’s still a valid reason considering how many US counties are struggling with droughts.

Vegetables grown for human consumption are many times less water-intensive than meat.

Hypocrisy and projection are firmly built into the right-wing mindset.

Both the ideological underpinnings of fascism and the reasons why this ideology is psychologically attractive are understood quite well.

Meanwhile the Megayacht business is booming.

Not to forget obligatory subscriptions.

A couple reasons, but mostly their main narrative that Jews will never be safe anywhere other than their own ethnostate. Every instance of actual discrimination and threats against jews serves their interests.

It’s a thing here in Germany too but only in rural areas. I’ve only ever been at one private gathering with a proper fire pit.

Because most of it is privatized.

Agreed on the last part. But a less cynical take: Companies like Sony obsessively track their sales metrics. If a campaign like this does go viral, and only a few percent of people actually follow through, it does create a noticeable dip in the metrics and an explanation will be demanded internally. There’s a small chance this makes certain managers a bit more careful about such decisions.

In rare cases companies have taken back or at least delayed similar moves, and they never do so without indication that it will indeed affect their bottom line.

Though I don’t think this campaign will have much effect, since asking for a full week is not something many people will follow through with. Also Sony is clearly banking on the fact that customers will stay due to lock-in to their ecosystem.

He should have done a follow-up survey asking the students why they felt it was okay to use LLMs and not proofread their results. This could have been a much greater learning opportunity and also drive home that the point wasn’t to shame them.

It’s not meant to scare people, it’s meant to impress unscrupulous clueless tech bros to generate hype for the IPO.

Sad that the best-case scenario is a Democrat-led, imperialist and likely still zionist, oligarchy that pays lip service to a handful of social issues.

No you’re absolutely not. Allowing this in a community is tacit agreement with discriminatory attitudes against queer people.

We have portable energy sources. They’re pretty efficient. Especially comparable to an orbital launch.

Those discussions are inevitable. But it’s better to have them about the use of a post than about the technicalities of the phrasing of a written rule.

Are there any clues to the reason for the dismissal / request to resign? You’d think there definitely is one, but probably one they don’t want to go public with, or they would have done so considering the backlash.

Yeah but those are people in their in-group with authority. They can’t do any wrong because they said so.

Actually caring about child abuse or anything for that matter, over deference to authority would completely dismantle their worldview.

Not every religious person feels the need to forcibly convert others.